Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On 03/11/2014 09:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> In particular, I'd like to see an exclusion that prevents local users >> from having the same name as any global user, so that we don't have >> ambiguity in GRANT and similar commands. This doesn't seem simple to >> enforce (if we supported partial indexes on system catalogs, it would >> be ...) but surely this representation is more amenable to enforcing it >> than the existing one.
> Should be workable if you're creating a local name - just check against > the list of global roles. Concurrent creations won't be safe without some sort of locking scheme. A unique index would be a lot better way of plugging that hole than a system-wide lock on user creation. But not sure how to define a unique index that allows (joe, db1) to coexist with (joe, db2) but not with (joe, 0). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers